Pluchea foetida (L.) Dc.

Stinking camphorweed (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Pluchea

Characteristics

Annuals or perennials, 40–100 cm; fibrous-rooted, sometimes rhizomatous. Stems (often dark purplish) arachnose, glandular. Leaves sessile; blades (thick, reticulate-veined) oblong to elliptic, lance-ovate, or ovate, mostly 3–10(–13) × 1–4 cm (bases clasping), margins denticulate (apices rounded to acute), faces minutely sessile-glandular. Heads in loose to dense, corymbiform arrays. Involucres usually cupulate to campanulate, sometimes turbinate-campanulate, 5–10 × 6–9(–12) mm (bases mostly rounded to impressed, sometimes obtuse). Phyllaries usually creamy white, sometimes cream, greenish, pinkish, rose-purplish, purplish, yellowish, or pale pink, thinly arachnoid-pubescent and sessile-glandular (the outer ovate to ovate-lanceolate, lengths mostly 0.2–0.6 times inner). Corollas creamy white to yellowish or pale pink. Pappi persistent, bristles distinct.
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Fibrous-rooted perennial 3–10 dm, finely glandular and often somewhat cobwebby-puberulent; lvs oblong to elliptic, lance-ovate, or ovate, 4–10 × 1–4 cm, sharply callous-denticulate, reticulate-veiny, rounded to acute at the tip, closely sessile and ± cordate-clasping; heads several or many in a short and broad, leafy infl; invol 5–8 mm, finely glandular or viscid-puberulent; disk 6–12 mm wide; cors ochroleucous; 2n=20. Permanently wet soil, often in meadows or swampy woods; s. N.J. to Fla. and Tex., chiefly near the coast, but sometimes inland, as in Mo.; W.I. Aug., Sept., or in the south all year.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 1.0
Root system fibrous-root
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Therapeutic use Febrifuge (leaf)
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Distribution

Pluchea foetida world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:238826-1
WFO ID wfo-0000125799
COL ID 4KHY6
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Synonyms

Pluchea tenuifolia Conyza bifrons Cacalia cancellata Placus foetidus Pluchea imbricata Pluchea bifrons Baccharis foetida Senecio cancellatus Senecio cancellatus Pluchea foetida Conyza uliginosa Pluchea foetida Pluchea camphorata var. camphorata Pluchea bifrons var. bifrons Pluchea foetida var. imbricata Pluchea foetida var. foetida Conyza foetida